Step 7: Sew the whole thing together

Step 8: Enjoy your new dress!

There are a lot of different options online, and its really fun to play with it yourself!

An infinity dress guide, which even a blond like me can understand!
As I was browsing through the internet I stumbled upon the infinity dress, a dress that has an infinite different ways to wear it. While browsing through all of the different ways I could wear it, I found a few I really liked! I was hooked!
I started looking for patterns online, found some too! Unfortunate for me, all of those patterns were intended for small chest skinny girls, who can wear this dress open backed and bra-less, I cannot. I had no choice but to replan the dress patterns to fit my bra + modesty requirements.
Me, my mother and her superb sewing skills started this project together. We didn’t get mach salvation from the guides online, so we recalculated the Measurements as we saw fit, with a lot of try and error (which we will try to spare you).
And this is the story of how this guide was born!

Step 1: The fabric

What fabric should I buy?
Flexible and heavy (I recommend some combination of Tricot – Lycra)

How mach fabric should I buy?
The fabric should be 4m long and 1.5m wide (1.5m is the standard)

Attention!
The length of the skirt is determent by the width of the fabric, the rest of the fabric is used for the straps, anyone who is taller or wider and want more then 2.5m straps (not recommended!) should buy more fabric accordingly.

Note: from the excess fabric marked in the layout as X I sewed a tights pants.

I think you did a great 'ible! I've been searching for an Infinite Dress for ages, since the commercial dissapered from this commercial tv station, and this dress looks much like one on the commercial. One question: is the material you used double sided, or did you sew two materials together?

Having a little trouble with your fabric width, are you sure you don't mean 150 cm wide? If not, where does one get tshirt fabric with lycra 1.5 m( m which to me stands for meter) wide as a standard? What is a teids? Just trying understand a pattern I would definitely like to make.

I didn't really know how to translate Tricot, but I think this is the world I meant by T. Most fabrics have a minimum of 1.5m wide when you buy them. Again I don't really know how to translate it but I meant tights pants. M does stand for meter. Sorry for my poor English, I do relay a lot on google translator … :)

Amid all the technical jargons and mind boggling schematics and impractical electronic projects (for normal people) this project is so welcome, such a great contrast and really practical. Thank you. Please post more.

I've seen lots of different tutorials for this kind of dress online but I love the wide waist piece you added. It makes the dress much more modest and versatile for those of us who are well endowed!

One thing you might consider is doubling up the fabric for the straps when using a non-reversible fabric. It would use a little more fabric but it would give it a more finished look. It looks awesome either way though!

This is the sort item women used make fior themselves all time. but its becoming a lost art because of big box stores effects on commerce. i like that you worked on the instructable with your mom helping. we forget how important it is to have advisors and mentors. i was impressed and i'm a guy with a skirt i saw called the sweet spot skirt on the internet. it was multi demensional skirt that adjusted to fit young women to older women it was reversable as well.that lady made business out selling them once she learned how to. so i encourage you to make more for your own wardrobe and skill set. great ible

Thx so mach. Actually one of the reasons I made this intractable was because all of my friends wanted one too! And I do think this is an important dress for any girl to have. And it is very interesting to hear the story behind the skirt! I have a few of those skirts (who don’t gain a few pounds over the winter?) and never know that story :)